Chapters 16 and 17 Homework

Good evening level 4 grammar. As you know, the semester is wrapping up. With this in mind, we still
have to go through chapters 16, 17, and 20. Luckily these only cover 52 pages, so we can get through
them if you do chapter 16 and half of 17 at home. Thus, this weekend you will do just that by reading
through the grammar notes and doing select exercises.
Chapter 16: Coordinating Conjunctions
We will begin this on page 352, Coordinating Conjunctions. As you have already learned in your
writing class, a coordinating conjunction is a connector that creates parallel structure by combining two
ideas, such as in the following sentence:
Steve and John are coming to dinner.
Here you can see and as a connector for two people, the proper nouns Steve and John. You can also use
them in the other sentences in chart 16-1.
Now that we have the basics taken care of, here is a list of the charts and exercises you must go through
for this chapter:
- Exercises 2 and 3
- Chart 16-2 and Ex. 6.
- Ex. 10.
- Chart 16-3 (Notice the use of is and are here and focus on the formulae).
- Exercise 12
- Ex. 17 and Chart 16-4 (Remember that and and but are usually used to connect two
independent clauses, both separated with a comma).
- Exercise 18
And here is the end of chapter 16! Congratulations! Now let's go to the first half of chapter 17.

Chapter 17: Adverb Clauses

Look aver exercise 1 and pay special attention to the words highlighted in blue.
Adverb clauses are easy to identify and work similarly to adjective clauses, except instead of working
to describe something, they work to show a relation between two ideas, such as time, cause, effect,
contrast, or condition as in the sentence below:
Whenever my car runs out of gasoline, it stops working.
The sentence above gives you a condition of when my car stops working.
Question: When does you car stop working?
Answer: When it runs out of gasoline.
Read chart 17-1 and pay special attention to punctuation and the list of words which introduce adverb
clauses. Now go on to the following Exercises and charts:
- Exercises 2 and 3
- Chart 17-2 with Exercise 5.
- Exercise 6.
- 17-3 with Exercise 12 (This is a very good cause and effect explanation).
- Exercise 14.
- Chart 17-4 and Exercise 16.
- Chart 17-5 and Exercise 20
That's all I'll give you for homework over the weekend. Make sure you study and read this material for
Monday. We will go through the rest of chapter 17 and all of chapter 20 on Monday, then prepare for
our last test on Wednesday if all goes according to plan!
Have a great weekend, and feel free to email me with any questions you have.